From 371800ee70974b6165aa30df729d86e11c0097dc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Kyjovsky <j1.kyjovsky@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 15 2023 11:59:15 +0000
Subject: fix: allow empty commits when `uses_rpmautospec`


To avoid situations where `commit` by default does
commit when no change in repo is present.

For reference, see pagure.io/rpkg/issue/677

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kyjovsky <j1.kyjovsky@gmail.com>

---

diff --git a/pyrpkg/__init__.py b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
index 0b9a869..187796e 100644
--- a/pyrpkg/__init__.py
+++ b/pyrpkg/__init__.py
@@ -1867,7 +1867,9 @@ class Commands(object):
 
         # construct the git command
         # We do this via subprocess because the git module is terrible.
-        cmd = ['git', 'commit', '--allow-empty']
+        cmd = ['git', 'commit']
+        if not self.is_retired() and self.uses_rpmautospec:
+            cmd.append('--allow-empty')
         if signoff:
             cmd.append('-s')
         if self.quiet: